Heh. I always did it because I assumed after an international flight and a long customs line, the last thing I’ll be doing when I present my passport is smiling--so I might as well have a passport that reflects what I’ll look like when the time comes.

Yes to both (legs and feet). I’m surprised there are people who don’t (although tbh I never thought about it one way or the other before).

I. LOVE. The Gift of Fear. It also has one of my all-time favorite quotes--(paraphrasing because I can’t find the exact phrasing at the moment): “When a man says ‘no’, it’s the end of a sentence. When a woman says ‘no’, it’s the start of a negotiation.”

You get all the stars.

Society says this all the time. We romanticize stalking and abusive behaviors (look at romantic male leads in tons of movies), tell women they should be flattered and tell would-be stalkers that this is the way to “get the girl”--never mind whether the woman in question actually wants or likes the attention.

I know it’s nowhere near enough, but I’m so sorry for your loss.

Re: The Daily Mail.

I always think of the phrase “caveat emptor” when I hear about couples who started via affair breaking up due to another affair.

Toby Stephens’ Rochester in Jane Eyre is the only Rochester.

In practice, a third-party “protest vote” on the most progressive platform the Dems have ever put forth will only move the party back to the center, since they’ll look at the loss and figure that they should go back to courting moderates and independents because they can’t get the progressives no matter what.

How about transgender rights? How about women’s right to choose? How about public health? Pence (who has said his inspiration is Cheney, and who would likely pull the strings in a Drumpf presidency the same way Cheney did for Dubya) wants Roe v. Wade overturned, has effectively criminalized abortion in his state,…

Meanwhile a friend of mine who (I THOUGHT) generally had the same values as me told me to “tone it down” with the facebook posts about how voting anyone but Clinton this November is implicitly supporting Drumpf—because apparently “progressives respond to arguments based on hope, not fear”. Thanks for being the sole…

You’d have to do it obliquely; I guarantee you the banana bros wouldn’t openly admit to being racist, even though they very obviously are. :(

I loved her for that. Bad. Ass. :D

Yeah, Tom Hanks and Ron Howard came to mind, as both are noted “family men”--I really hope it’s not either of them. :(

Just remember: an aquatic...mammal...within city limits...that ain’t legal, either.

Except it wasn’t an isolated incident. It is (according to the person who complained) ongoing, pervasive, and toxic. This is one example. We don’t know how sincere the apology was, even. My coworkers have “apologized” to me before, rolling their eyes at each other, because I was “oversensitive” about some sexist…

As I’ve said elsewhere in the comments, this thread itself might be the only proof (text, obviously written by her coworker/s) that she has of what is likely a daily occurrence. If she says “so-and-so said x to me today”, all so-and-so and his pals have to do is say “oh she misheard me” or “oh I don’t remember saying…

Having worked for years on an all-male (other than me) team, I have no doubt there were MANY microaggressions prior to the ‘straw that broke the camel’s back’ moment that the chatlogs here seem to represent. This is also why I’m against publication of specific things (like the actual joke that triggered this process),…

You need way more stars for this.